Liberty’s Japanese love affair – a 150-year-old relationship in retail

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On the top floor of Liberty on Carnaby Street, tucked in a corner of the vast Tudorbethan building, an exhibition celebrates the London department store’s 150 years. I Am. We Are. Liberty (running until 25 July) is sold as “a journey through the Liberty archive”, and is quite literally that: a walk-through kaleidoscope bedecked in the exuberant multicoloured…